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The death toll from an hours-long Taliban assault on a hotel now stands at 22, including a number of foreigners (AFP Photo/WAKIL KOHSAR)/ Kabul (AFP) - At least 22 people are now known to have died when Taliban militants slaughtered guests at a luxury Kabul hotel, Afghan officials said Monday, as fears grew that the attackers may have had inside help. Authorities warned they were still investigating how militants breached security, which was taken over by a private company three weeks ago, at the landmark Intercontinental Hotel late ...

Jan 22, 2018

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Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Sunday strongly condemned attack on Afghan Intercontinental Hotel which left at least 22 people killed. “Undoubtedly, those who cause fear and kill people in order to reach their plots should learn lesson from the fate of Takfiri terrorism in ...

Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although the final toll of dead and wounded may still be higher. Grace Lee reports.

At least 19 people were killed during a 13 hour siege after Taliban gunmen in army uniforms stormed a luxury Kabul hotel popular with Afghan officials and foreigners. Eyewitnesses described how the gunmen deliberately targeted foreigners as they rampaged through the six-floor Intercontinental ...

Smoke billows from the Intercontinental hotel after an attack by armed gunmen in Kabul, Afghanistan on January 21, 2018. At least 18 people, including 14 foreigners, were killed in an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul. The attack, which has since been claimed by ...

Gunmen in army uniforms who stormed Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel late on Saturday and battled Afghan Special Forces through the night killed more than 30 people and wounded many more, although the final toll of dead and wounded may still be higher. Wahid Majroh, a spokesman for the ministry of ...

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Afghan security forces were still trying to clear the landmark hilltop Intercontinental Hotel after an attack by gunmen killed at least five people and wounded eight others in Kabul (AFP Photo/SHAH MARAI)/ Kabul (AFP) - Gunmen killed at least five people and wounded eight others in an attack on ...

Afghan security personnel on the hotel rooftop after the attack (AFP Photo/SHAH MARAI)/ Kabul (AFP) - Afghanistan's Kam Air has been left reeling after nine personnel including five pilots were killed in the Taliban attack on a Kabul luxury hotel where the airline housed its foreign staff. Forty ...

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Security forces said Sunday they had killed the last of six Taliban militants to end an overnight siege at Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel that left at least 18 people dead, including 14 foreigners. Some of the 150 guests fled the gunbattle and fire sparked by the ...

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